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Fables from Aesop
(Blackie, 1961)
AI at the back. The alternating (water-?) colored and black-and-white illustrations are not bad. Maybe the best thing about this kids' book is the morals--e.g., for the man who loses his wig: When others laugh at us, ...
Aesop's Fables
(London: J.M. Dent & Sons/NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1961)
A beautiful edition distinctive for its green, blue, orange or tan two-tone art, a specimen of which appears on every page except 15 and 71. Some samples of very good illustration occur on 46, 85, 108, and 114. Perhaps ...
Isoppu Ebanashi (2)
(KodanshaK¿dansha, 1961)
This thick-paged children's book shows its age. The spine is weak and cramped. Various artists present generally a two-page spread of simple art for each fable. The stories include BF, The Net That Lets Little Fish ...
Aesop's Fables
(London: J.M. Dent & Sons/NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1961)
Here is the latest printing of a work I comment on extensively under its first publication date of 1961. It is now included as #49 in the C.I.C. (Children's Illustrated Classics) series.
Aesop's Fables
(London: J.M. Dent & Sons/NY: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1961)
This is a later printing of a work I comment on extensively under its original date. See my comments there.